Recent content by andrewgeorge

I think I do somewhere—I can clarify I think in the meantime. The line between the dark top color and the light belly color runs along the fuselage from the trailing edge of the wing root. On the Nakajima factory-camouflaged planes the line curves up higher on the fuselage to meet the leading...

I *think* Hiyo’s planes were deployed to land bases in the Solomons for a big air offensive in April 1943, so they might have been temporarily field-camouflaged.

I pulled a couple shots from an NHK newsreel from winter 1944 that shows a fleet deployment that looks an awful lot like it might have been one of Koga's sorties over to the Marshall Islands in fall 1943. Footage is from a carrier deck (Zuikaku? Shōkaku?) and shows two other carriers that might...

I’ve seen those they are excellent! The authors work is tremendous. That’s going to be the basis for the paint job. The last detail is command stripes — were they used? full length of tail, or matching length of text?

Wow those are great shots—from a newsreel I gather? My understanding is that summer 1943 the navy went to two-tone green/grey paint and removed fuselage stripes from planes.

I was thinking September/October 1943. I’ve read Admiral Koga sortied in strength a few times from Truk with the first carrier division among other major assets, so I was thinking there may be some photos or film of deck operations from that period—I figure the navy would want to propagandize...

Hi everyone first time poster here, but I see that there’s a lot of expertise and I wanted to see if anyone had any leads on a fairly technical question. I’ve been getting back into model building and I am looking to make a project out of an old $15 Tamiya A6M2 mod. 21 kit I picked up at the...